The two plants are far from porter the same claims

After the Government, income holiday last week, it is the turn of the social partners to their social re-entry. Medef will tomorrow open its summer at Jouy-en-Josas (Yvelines) University. Placed under the theme of "reconcile the irreconcilable", these meetings will welcome guest star José Manuel Barroso, the President of the European Commission, and several Ministers, including Nicolas Sarkozy and Thierry Breton. They will also be important for trade union leaders, with which frictions have been many this year (unemployment insurance, CPE, debate on the flexibility, etc). François Chérèque, Secretary General of the CFDT, will participate in the opening plenary meeting tomorrow evening. Jean-Claude Mailly (FO), Jacques neighbour (CFTC) and Bernard Van Craeynest (GSC) intervene, them, at different round tables, on Wednesday. For the first time, it was not Denis Kessler, CEO of SCOR and former right arm of Ernest-Antoine Seilliere, who will be prepared this summer University, but Laurence Parisot itself.

The President of the Medef is very much involved, personally, in the choice of the themes that will be debated on the HEC campus. Beyond the classical subjects on liberalism or economic patriotism, they sought clear give a political dimension to re-entry, addressing the issues of precarity, justice, education and energy.

Trade unions divided

Before publishing a white paper designed to influence the presidential election campaign in the fall, the Medef is already taking date to 2007. "Everyone knows that we are on the eve of critical deadlines for the future of the France." "Our Summer University is the kick-off of an archi-nécessaire debate of ideas," says Laurence Parisot.

However, trade unions, who hope they also bring their weight in the electoral pre-campaign, argue not welded in this school. Pending the opening of the parliamentary debate on the privatization of gas of France, on 11 September, meetings will open on the project of reform of the social dialogue, on Wednesday at the Ministry of labour, may shed light on their deep differences. The first receipts will be François Chérèque and Bernard Thibault, his counterpart from the CGT. The two plants are far from porter the same claims.

For the CGT, there is no question of reforming social dialogue without addressing the issue of Union representativeness prior. "We reject that agreements signed by minority unions may be registered in the marble of the Labour Code", it indicates in the entourage of Bernard Thibault. However, the CFDT, which is also opposed to the validation of accords signed by minority unions, would block the record of the social dialogue this principle. It should support more candid to reform tracks selected by the Government, in particular the obligation to consult the social partners before any amendment to the Labour Code.

The site will be discussed Thursday by Dominique de Villepin, at a Government seminar in Troyes (Aube). The Prime Minister, who must speak this evening on TF1, hope mark its mark an area where it has been, until then, strongly criticized. It should confirm the establishment of a transport allowance, intended to offset the inflation of the price of fuel.